Gemini 3 Pro vs Qwen3-Max
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Gemini 3 Pro
73.6Google · Nov 2025
Google's November 2025 frontier breakout — 91.9% GPQA Diamond and 37.5% HLE made it the reasoning leader of its generation.
Qwen3-Max
80.5Alibaba (Qwen) · Sep 2025
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
The verdict
Gemini 3 Pro wins 3 of the 3 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is about 1.9x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 3 Pro also takes 1M of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Max.
Benchmark head-to-head 3–0
Specs & pricing
| Gemini 3 Pro | Qwen3-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | 73.6 | 80.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $2 | $1.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $12 | $6 |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 66K | 66K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image, audio, video | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Nov 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $38.00 | $21.00 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3-Max?
- Gemini 3 Pro wins 3 of the 3 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Qwen3-Max. Qwen3-Max is about 1.9x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 3 Pro also takes 1M of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Max.
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3-Max?
- Gemini 3 Pro costs $2/$12 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-Max costs $1.2/$6. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $38.00 versus $21.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro or Qwen3-Max?
- On SWE-bench Verified — the standard agentic-coding benchmark — Gemini 3 Pro scores 76.2% versus 69.6% for Qwen3-Max, making Gemini 3 Pro the stronger pick for coding agents.